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3 Year Mixed Bag

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Drove in to see Pablo doing a solo EC run before the workout, nicely done!

FNGs: Nope

3 Years ago on this day, Tonka picked me up and treated me to a workout Q’d by none other than Midget at Disney.  It sucked.  I did every rep of the first set and was quite proud of myself, until I realized we were 10 minutes in to a 45 minute workout and I was quite done.  Sometime in the next 15 minutes as we were doing repeats on the stairs, Midget tapped me on the shoulder and told me to just wait at the top for everyone.  I think he was afraid I was going to fall out and hurt myself going up/down the stairs.  I also think he was right to be afraid of that.

It’s been a great 3 years.  One of my fond memories was training for my first HSHM.  That year, we did hill repeats & track workouts on alternating Wednesdays (“Speed Racer” was the AO) led by Pilgrim, Bernie, and Wrangler.  As a little homage, I brought out one of those workouts for this morning.

The Workout:

There was a lot going on this morning.  The Fritter Goobers + POTS went on a Ruck.  Not sure how far they went.  At some point they stopped for refreshments.  I’ll let them tell that story.

Double D was hoping for just miles, so Mookie mapped out a nice 4-5 mile route for him and he took off solo.

Forceps missed his alarm, but made it for COT & 2ndF 🙂

The rest of us did hill repeats on Stinson.  Starting at the bottom of the hill stop sign:

  • Run hard to Ivan parking lot; recover back to stop sign
  • Run hard to Cletus parking lot; recover back to stop sign
  • Run hard to Grigsby stop sign; recover back
  • Hard to Grigsby; recover
  • Hard to Cletus; recover
  • Hard to Ivan; recover

If you did the whole thing, it was right at 6 miles.

Mary: Pfft
Announcements:

Awesome COT after the run.  One of the best I’ve ever been at.   Too often it’s just “name / age / f3 name; quick announcement; let’s go”.  This morning we actually talked a bit about what we’re doing and why.  I really appreciated the time.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Oboe was a man on a mission this morning.  Awesome job beating down those hills.
Prayer: Running the hills made me think of a Pax I haven’t seen in a long time who used to be out there for these workouts — Princess Cut.  I know life hit him pretty hard for a while.  I wasn’t close enough with him to be there to help, but I know I miss him out in the gloom.  It made me appreciate what we’re doing with the Shield Lock even more.

Thanks for a great 3 years men, looking forward to the next 3.

Monday mutiny

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FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, imperial walkers, SSH, hillbillies, SSH, mountain climbers, leg stretch he’s, arm stretches, fazio arm circles
The Workout:Fedex led 4 pax while 4 stayed at red October. 10- hot potato IC, 10-around the body IC, 10-Figure 8 IC, 10 Swings, 10-triceps IC, 20 -presses, 10- standing be rows and 10- bent over rows. 10- tricep rows. 10-go let squats, 10- each side suitcase deadlifts, 10- each leg single leg deadlifts, 10-squat curls IC. 10-sit-up press, 10- merkin/squat /curl combos, 10 American hammers, 10 side bends.  Rinse and repeat
Mary: derkins, irkins , LSF, LBCs, homer to marge, pickle pounders
Announcements: shield lock, throw back week next week. Possum trot closed Christmas unless a volunteer to q. Oak wood 24 donations and auction
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: injured pax, Fumunga, unspoken.

Simbas? WTF!

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A foggy morning for a start of Mutiny/Red October.  Forceps led the warmup before taking 4 PAX to Mutiny.  Remaining 6 PAX grabbed their kettlebell and met up under the shelter after the joint warmup.  Great seeing R-22 back in the gloom!  He’s getting ready for Wrightsville!

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Jog down around circle and back, 20 x 3 ct SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Windmills, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Imperial Squaters, 10 Hillbilly Squaters, 10 Fozie Arm Circles, 10 ct Pigeon Pose

The Workout:  Lots of 3 (10 count exercises) with Rinse & Repeat.

Exercises included:  Alternating leg ups on wall (R/L) with one hand carrying kb, goblet squats, single arm thrusters. R&R

Lawn mower pull (R/L), Rut-rows, tricep extension. R&R

Figure 8s, Bus Drivers, Midget Love handles. (R&R)

Simbas – new exercise.  Lunges forward and present kb to the sky; two hand upward rows, ground pounders. R&R

Mosey to wall (without kb).  15 count BTTW, 15 count People’s Chair.  R&R increasing count to 20; the 25.

20 count kb swings.  R&R.

Whiling leaning on picnic table, 10 count arm pull (R/L), on knees, 10c o/h press, on six, knees elevated, 10c chest press.  R&R.

Mary:  Mutiny PAX joined us for ab workout that included LBCs, American hammers, Freddy Mercury, H2M, Box Cutters, Have a nice day.

Announcements:  Holiday party.

T-Claps (Recognition):  CSAUP PAX; great to see R-22 back out in the gloom.  EC – LED, others?  Thanks for coming down to Mutiny Forceps!

Prayer:  Dauber led us out.  Reach out to someone over the holidays; sadness and sorrow for many.  Raise them up.  Prayers for heart surgery of a PAX friend; PAX traveling; Pax injured.  Unspoken.

 

Thank you men for the privilege to lead you this AM.  -Dauber

There was a plan. Was.

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YHC had mentally put together a workout.  It required multiple teams of 3 and my biggest stumbling point when mentally preparing the night before was trying to figure out how to address a 2 man team or an extra PAX.  This seemed totally doable as Possum Trot regularly has 10-15 dudes show up.  5.  We had 5 this morning.  Don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely grateful for the 4 HIM that showed up this morning and wouldn’t trade them for the world, but it threw a wrench in what was already a thinly put together plan.  Oh well, time to practice was we preach and modify as needed.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Good mornings x10 IC

SSH x20 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs x10 IC

Squated overhead claps x10 IC

Squated seal claps x10 IC

The Workout:

So the original plan was to do a 3-man team Dora with a PAX on either side of the parking lot and the 3rd partner bear crawling and/or crab walking with a rock in between the other two and having it be a bit of a relay.  This did not happen.

What did happen:

We moseyed to the rock pile to get a rock and then headed over to the top of the road leading down to the ball fields.  Two groups of 2 PAX grouped up at for a standard Dora (100 merkins, 200 LBC, 300 squats), with YHC being solo.  While one partner started on the exercises the other was bear crawling and pushing their down to the not-so-portable Port-A-R4TJ.  Once said commode was reached they would flip over, put rock on “rocks” and crab walk back up to their partner.  Cycle through this until both groups completed their full set.

Along with the original plan calling for 3-man teams YHC also planned to increase the number of reps of each exercise to accommodate for the larger group.  Again, with smaller numbers we finished sooner than expected so I had to think on the fly.  Or, as was the case today, steal from Forceps.  PAX circled up with their rocks, rotation one rock to the left after each exercise, doing two rounds of:

10x curls for the girls

10x tricep extension (or, if you’re Breach, tris for the guys)

10x rut rows

10x bus drivers

10x chest press

10x dead lift

Afterwards we returned the rocks and headed to the wall on the tennis courts for BTTW -> People’s chair -> BTTW -> People’s chair.  The PAX took turns counting to 10 in as many languages (both real and made up) as they could.  Breach tried to get creative and do an IC 10 count doing mountain climbers but YHC and his weigh vest wanted nothing to do with that and cut him off at 5.

Mary:

Circle up for:

15x American Hammers

10x Australian Snow Angles

15x Low slow flutter

10x Freddie Mercury

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP on Saturday

Christmas party next weekend

Q sheet looks bare (at least for PT) .  Being with a group that has Q’d often I encouraged them to get other PAX to spread their wings and sign up to Q and fill in the sheet.  It’s getting in to the cold months were numbers dwindle so having folks come out and VQ will always draw a bigger crowd.

Prayer:

Wallaby and his family.  Pablo is trying to set up time to go over and help put up their Christmas lights.  Check the #3rdF channel in Slack or reach out to him directly for details.  There is also a meal train set up for the family.  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c44aaab23a7f58-hanlon

The time around the holidays can be hard for some folks.  We often times think of it as a joyous time, as it should be, but others struggle to get through these times for any number of reasons.  Reach out to your fellow PAX that you haven’t seen in a while, or a friend or a neighbor, and check in with them and see how they’re doing.  You never know what someone is going through.

 

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Thankful

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FNGs:none
Warm Up:Good mornings, arm stretches, fazio arm circles, ssh
The Workout:

T – The Wolverine 10 count

H- Howling monkeys atom the circle and 10 count at end

A- Aiken legs 20 jump squats, 20 lunges IC, 15 smurf jacks

N- no surrender 20 IC

K- king of hearts suicides. 3 sets

S- Stirkins stepuos and irkin

G- 20 Groiners

I- indian run to tennis court with last man doing 3 merkins

V- vacuum cleaners with 3 sermons at two locations

I- iron Hulk 1:4 ratio to 7

N- never cross dolly

G – growing pains

G- good day

Mary:none
Announcements: convergence tomorrow at 6:00am tiger blood, csaup dec 7th, Christmas party Dec 14th.  Leadership changes starting Jan 1st
T-Claps (Recognition): to the pax who came out and brought canned goods for Mamas House of Thrift.  Picture to follow but we’ll over 300 items.
Prayer:Quivers family, Hardy and sickness, Wallaby

On the fly

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FNGs: None
Warm Up:SSH, Good Mornings,Daisy Pickers, Windmills, mountain climbers, Moroccan nightclubs
The Workout:Half burpee curb hops. Some where around 15. Grabbed some rocks and did a variation of 7’s utilizing the wonder bra and merkin/groiner exercises.  15 count IC tricep curls, curls for the girls, deadlifts, and rutrows.  Back to curb to do half burpee wave from 1 to 4, holding plank when resting. Repeat rock exercises above. Jog to concession stand and did 7’s of donkey kicks on wall and plank to arm extension onto wall IC.

Mary:met with red October for some stretching, homer to marge and pickle pounders. Did rounds of circle on what we are thankful for.
Announcements:Christmas party, convergence Thursday, canned goods brought to possum trot will be delivered to Mamas house Thrift shop. 12 bucks gets around 25 cans.
T-Claps (Recognition):for all the pax not running last week but supporting those who ran.
Prayer: quiver daughter and family.

BTTW til you drop!

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EC: Fonzie, LED

Warm Up: I can’t remember…but I know we did 5 burpees.

The Workout:

Mosey to baseball field for one welsh dragon to 10.

Mosey back to tennis court for reconstructed burpees.

Crab walk first court, 4 turkish getups. Run back.

Crab walk two courts, 4 turkish getups and up/downs. Run back.

Crab walk three courts, 4 turkish getups and merkins. Run back.

Crab walk all four courts, 4 turkish getups and burpees. Run back.

Circle merk for 3 rounds, one side do 10 pattycake merkins, the other side do 10 brokeback merkins.

Back to tennis courts for BTTW til you drop. Losers do 5 burpees. Winner: Fonzie! 5 burpees anyways.

Mary: PAX choice.

Announcements: Frosty the CSAUP.

T-Claps (Recognition): Fonzie, our BTTW champion! And welcome to Fuquay Hardy, Florence, and K9 Poop Eater.

Prayer: Everyday life.

Just Back For The Weekend

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PAX: LED, Fonzie, Doc, Finkle, Norm, Modify, H1N1, FedEx, Yosemite, Sprinkler

EC: Norm

FNGs: None

It was great to see Norm back in the gloom, even though he was just back for the weekend and heading back to training after Mutiny.

Warm Up: We did some SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Arm Circles, and Overhead Claps all in cadence

The Workout: We started at the short wall under the parking lot shelter for step ups and squats. After that we went to the concession stand wall for some BTW and Shoulder Taps.  Then we headed to the parking lot behind Club Works for walking lunges into burpee to the rock pile where I told the Pax to get a medium size rock and John Cusack to the parking lot on the side of Club Works where we started with some Merkins, on each “up” we slid the rock under us to the left or right, then we bear crawled across the lot with the rock.  On this side we did Rut Rows into overhead alternating lunges and then bear crawled back with the rock to do some more sliding rock Merkins. After we bear crawled back to the other side, with the rock, we did some alternating around the world to squat to curl for the girls. Told the Pax to John Cusack back for some rinse and repeat. Before we returned the rocks we partnered up so P1 can do Merkins with a rock on his back as P2 did squats. We returned the rocks and I told the Pax that we would be heading back the way we came in so we did walking lunges into burpee back to the the parking circle.

Mary: Ran out of time

Announcements: Check Facebook and Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):  Norm and his family as he heads back to training

Prayer: FedEx’s son and co worker, who was bitten by a dog, and Norm’s friend who’s about to have a baby

 

 

Always an honor to lead you fine gentlemen!!!!  SYITG!!

10 PAX for AGS

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EC: Fonzie, LED, H1N1, Redenbacher

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Standard Mookie Warm up…light mosey around the lot and  alternating butt kickers and high knees, which then morphed into a set of carioca. Squat Hold while YHC explained the route.

The Workout:

Standard Half Marathon route from Womble to the Greenway, around Bass Lake (counterclockwise),  up through Sugg Farm, and back to Womble for YHC, Nemo, and Master Shake. Yogurt ran essentially the same route after CoT.

Bernie and Pilgrim completed their power testing at the Womble loop.

H1N1, LED, and Fonzie continued on toward Ting and back after EC to get in 9 miles total.

Oboe rucked with breathtaker +20…solid work Oboe.

Mary: Not today, we were short on time when we arrived for CoT.

Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook.

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for showing up to get some miles. Oboe for a solid Ruck.

Prayer: Continued prayers for Bernie and his family and all unspoken requests.

YHC took us out.

Burpees X 0 = My legs hurt

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During last week’s COT at Possum Trot, Fonzie made a comment about the Iron PAX challenge highlighting that we don’t do enough leg work.  With that in mind, I set out this week to begin combating that notion.  45 minutes later I had problems standing up after saying the prayer and we’re not even going to talk about trying to walk upstairs once I got home.

FNGs: None

EC: Cupid

Warm Up:

Moroccan Night Club x 10

Smurf Jacks x 10

Good Morning x 10

Cotton Pickers x 10

Nancy Kerrigan x 10 each direction.  This is a variation on the traditional arm circles.  You lean your torso forward and extend one leg out behind you.  Circle arms for a 10 count forward.  Switch legs and then do 10 circles in reverse

The Workout:

Today’s workout was to be a modification of four corners, where we were doing exercises on each of the four sides of the outside of the tennis courts with some sort of lunge walking between sides. It took a lot longer than I thought it was going to so in order to get through everything I wanted to we switched to moseying between sides on our 2nd lap.

We began in the parking lot with an easy set of 20 prisoner squats.

Lunge walk to the side of the tennis courts nearest the road.  Reminded PAX that it wasn’t a race and to make sure to use good form on the way over.  Squat hold for the six.

Bobby Hurley x 16

Walk Like an Egyptian to the next side of the tennis courts.  WLaE is essentially a lunge walk Indian run.   PAX line up and step forward in to a lunge and hold it.  The exion calls for the person in the back to run to the front but since I promised no running yesterday on Slack we bear crawled to the front.  Once that person go to the front we lunged forward with our other leg and held it while the next PAX bear crawled to the front.  We cycled through the line two times to get to the next spot.

Everyone grabbed a rock and came back down to the road.  Goblin squats x20 and then all PAX lined up and held squat with their rocks while 5 counts were given all the way down the line.

Lunge walk to side by the ball field.

Floating lunges x 10 each leg.  Lunge forward and then backward with the same leg, not touching in the middle.  Forward and back counted as 1.  This hurt.

Walk Like an Egyptian back to main parking lot.  This time, instead of bear crawls, we did duck walks to the front of the line.  We had less time than I wanted at this point so we only did one cycle through the line and then moseyed to the center of the lot.

Everyone grabbed a partner and back-to-back people’s chair for a 30 count.

Mosey to the street side where we did Bobby Hurley x 20.

Mosey to the back and grabbed our rocks.  Held them over head and did 20 squats.  Everyone returned their rocks and we moseyed to the next side where we did No Surrender x 20.

After that we moseyed back to the parking lot to circle up for Mary.

Mary:

Low slow flutter x 15

American Hammers x 15

Box cutters x 10

6 inches for a 30ish count.

The count wasn’t exact because I was doing it in my head and during this point someone mentioned my comment about burpees in the pre-blast.  I said that we were multiplying by 0 and that was the number of burpees we were doing.  It was pointed out that 0 wasn’t a multiple of 10 and then other’s starting indirectly calling in to question the public education system of Pennsylvania.  Clearly I got distracted.  Either way, we didn’t do any burpees.

Announcements:

Picnic on Saturday.  Signup sheet in the #2ndF channel in Slack.  Bring stuff.

Q Sheet challenge still going.  Even if its a couple weeks out, get your name on there and lead a workout.  If you’re new or nervous ask for help from a site Q.  It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be gimmicky.  Just make people hurt (in a good way).

T-Claps (Recognition):

Fromunga for wearing a weight vest for no good reason.

Prayer:

FedEx’s coworker who got bit in the hand by a dog while at work.  Pray that he recovers full feeling to his hand.

Double D’s grandson getting tubes in his ears this morning.  Pray for his mother as any procedure on a child is always much harder on the parents.

 

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